Socrates on Why the Belief that Death is a Bad Thing is so Ubiquitous and Intractable

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The Journal of Ethics 25 (1):107-122 (2020)
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As a cognitivist about emotions, Socrates takes the fear of death to be a belief that death is a bad thing for the one who dies. Socrates, however, thinks there are reasons for thinking death is not a bad thing at all, and might even be a blessing. So the question considered in this paper is: how would Socrates explain the fact that so many people believe death is bad?

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